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Four Sea Interludes
Aldeburgh's Brudenell Hotel is an odd mixture. Some of its rooms are right next to the noisiest lift
imaginable, like drilling through the wall (never again after the first experience), another is beloved of
a seagull so you mustn't open the window too wide (I did, briefly, last year, and in it came and shat
everywhere), and the lounge only offers the Torongraph, Times and Daily Heil (not even an Observer
on Sundays). On the plus side, there's comfort, the restaurant is good and has the best views of the
beach, sea and sky, and it's only a few yards to go and dip in the sea. Being there at so many times of
day affords the kind of contrasts Britten captures in the interludes of Peter Grimes, so here's my visual
representations from the weekend, not entirely corresponding, but, I think, equally various.
Dark clouds on the horizon at Saturday lunchtime:
